Public Affairs category: 1291 books
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Foreign policy is a plan of action that a State makes and executes in order to deal with other States and international issues.
Foreign policy is a pattern of behavior that a State adopts while it pursues its interests in international relations.
It is in this lucid manner that this...
No Return
A novel of the Canadian election that vanished in Muskoka's backwoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken’s novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation’s capital shows why.
Unique events in the Dominion’s second election, in 1872, inspired Aiken to write about Muskoka’s returning officer, Richard...
East Asia in Transition: Toward a New Regional Order
Toward a New Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
"Has uniformly good essays on economic and political change, the policies of the great and local powers, and the prospects for building a new regional order". -- Foreign Affairs
Patience and Fortitude
Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
**A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people’s interests—by the reporter who broke the story
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In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost...
Posh Boys
How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are plucked from their nurseries and sent to beautiful compounds far away from all the other children. They are provided with all the teachers they need, the best facilities, doctors and food. Every day...
by Paul Richards
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Spin doctors are seldom out of the news for long. But who really understands what 'spin' is, or what spin doctors do? The media has moved on from a world where press officers carried piles of newspapers to the office each morning, when Twitter was what birds did and mobile phones were the size of...
by Stanley Kutler
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
Richard Nixon said he wanted his administration to be "the best chronicled in history." But when Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a voice-activated taping system to a Senate committee in July 1973, Nixon's White House and its recordings quickly became the most infamous in American...
Why the Third Way failed
Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises...
Internal Improvement
National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans...
by Abdou Karim GUEYE
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Si cet ouvrage a été écrit, c’est que dans le métier d’Inspecteur général d’Etat et celui de Consultant international que j’exerce depuis quelques années, je rencontre souvent des experts, des citoyens et bien d’autres personnes qui constamment...
Managing Local Governments
Designing Management Control Systems that Deliver Value
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme. With political considerations evident both locally and nationally, managing resources can be complex and subject to change.
This book introduces new concepts and new ways of doing business that can greatly enhance...
Understanding the Social Economy
A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission –...
Global Governance Enterprises
Creating Multisector Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Global Governance Enterprises focuses on a specific multi-sector collaboration—the formation of an entity that carries out global governance—providing a detailed analysis of the context of their emergence, as well as how they are created, managed, and sustained.
Forrer considers the growing...
Redesigning Work
A Blueprint for Canada's Future Well-being and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Canada’s future prosperity is of utmost concern to citizens, industry leaders and policy makers. Using original public opinion research from EKOS, Redesigning Work argues that improving people’s jobs and workplaces can unlock the potential to strengthen Canada’s economy and improve the well-being...